Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

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Austin, TX

Education

B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin

M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)

  • One Man’s Journey

    You don’t have to be on The Biggest Loser to lose a lot of weight. Just do it.

  • Review: Thank You, God, for Blessing Me

    I just downloaded and read a cute little children’s book. Thank You, God for Blessing Me, by Max Lucado. In print, it is a board book, about a caterpillar thanking God for the various blessing in his life.  The illustrations are done well and are colorful enough to keep the eyes of the little ones attracted to…

  • Review: Doing Virtuous Business

    I recently read Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise and was disappointed. The book, by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, had the potential to be a great work looking at the various ways businesses have been successful while still leading through an ethical and virtuous approach. I thought this could be a more business-oriented book along the…

  • The Kindle

    I’ve fought it for sometime. The intense desire to buy a Kindle has been nagging at me for years. I love the idea of it—a lightweight, relatively inexpensive device that makes electronic books easy. Folks have made arguments that why buy a Kindle when you can read e-books on your computer, iPod/iPhone, Android device or…

  • Dell Hell

    I’ve been a Dell user for years and while I’ve heard of so-called “Dell Hell” experiences, never had anything but outstanding service from them. Until now. First, it seemed that anything I purchased worked really well. My first Dell laptop, a rack server, a dozen or so desktops for work. But, anything my in-laws purchased…

  • A Funeral and A Birthday

    On Saturday, I started the day with a funeral and ended it with my birthday dinner. When the funeral was set for the 15th and I was asked to help organize the reception, I paused. Without question, without hesitation, Ruben’s funeral and the celebration of his life with his family and friends far, far outweighed…